As long as the story engages me enough (as it did in Goddess by Mistake), the niggling details remain just that. The later technicalities of how this will work in terms of the romance are given short shrift. How the women switch bodies is explained with a spell and a wave of Demeter’s hand.

Cast’s Goddess books is not to think about the mechanics too much. Here’s the deal: Persephone will take over Lina’s body in present day Tulsa and make the bakery a wild success and Lina (as Persephone) will join Hades in the Underworld. By following a recipe from the Goddess cookbook faithfully, Lina inadvertently calls on Demeter, who sees in the baker her chance to shape events to suit both women. Demeter is afraid that Persephone doesn’t have the needed maturity for the job and wants her to get some life experience before taking on the task of being the Goddess of the Underworld. The girl has been promised to the Underworld for six months of each year and the denizens of the Underworld are calling on her with increasing frequency to make her first visit. In another realm Demeter is concerned about her beautiful daughter Persephone. When she delves into The Italian Goddess Cookbook she gets more than she bargained for. In hopes of finding a fabulous recipe to jumpstart a catering arm of the baking business, Lina hits the used bookstores.

What’s a girl to do but hit the books? Cookbooks that is. If Lina can’t find a way to make a lot of money fast, her Italian bakery, Pani Del Goddess, is going to go under. Her accountant, an idiot if there ever was one, neglected to pay the IRS and now they want their money. Cast’s uneven and slowly-paced third novel. Trouble is, they get pretty short shrift in Ms. Questions that could make for an entirely fascinating novel if the author gave them the attention they merit. Given the chance to become a goddess for six months, would you? Could you abandon your life and take the chance? What happens to the life you’ve left behind and to the life you’re about to inhabit? Great questions. In Goddess of Spring the author posits an interesting “what would you do” dilemma.

Goddess of spring by pc cast